[edlug] RE: [Scottish] Linux Install Day

[James E. Jarvis]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, William Anderson wrote:

>
> Peter George wrote:
> >
> > Did you order a stack of Ubuntu LiveCD's as well? They'll be a better
> > giveaway than installers for people who just want to suck it and see.
>
> IIRC the x86 CD packs come with two disks: Install and Live ... ah yes, they
>  do: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/shipit/
>
> PPC and AMD64 don't have Live CDs yet, ergo those packs only have the
> Install CD.

Be extremely careful about recommending anything to _G5_ _iMac_ users. I
have Yellow Dog running (sort of) and I believe Gentoo will too, but a
number of issues have to settle down first - e.g. the temperature control
system fans.

Cheers,

James

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